one thing i quite like about scala is that ability to run it in
“interpreted” mode via the scala command. that allows me —
similiar to python or ipython — to experiment and quickly try things
out or even test my classes and objects.

what was a bit of a pain was getting the proper classpath constructed
so that not only target/classes was picked up but also all the
required dependencies. poking a bit around in maven’s plugin
documentation i came across the dependency plugin and in particular
the dependency:build-classpath mojo, armed with that information i
came up with the following rather useful shell script: